Christmas Countdown! vs Days Until
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Christmas Countdown!
Track the exact time remaining until Christmas 2025, down to the second or even heartbeats. Choose from fun characters to accompany your countdown and share your excitement with friends and family. Enjoy festive music while you wait for the holiday.
- Precise countdown (days, hours, minutes, seconds, heartbeats)
- Multiple time modes (weeks, nights, seconds, heartbeats)
- Six festive companion characters
- Social media sharing
- Christmas music playback
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The app that keeps you updated to how many days, hours, minutes, seconds and even heartbeats there are until Christmas 2025. There are multiple 'time-modes' including counting down the number of total weeks, nights, hours, minutes, total seconds or heartbeats until Christmas. Choose between 6 characters to keep you company while watching the countdown! Characters include: • Santa Claus • Snowman • Christmas tree • Reindeer • Skater Share the countdown with your family and friends to all of your favourite social networks! Including Instagram! Listen to Christmas songs whilst watching the time tick closer to Christmas.
Days Until
This app helps you track upcoming events with a visually appealing countdown. It offers a home screen widget and daily notifications to keep you informed. You can also share your countdowns with others or use the images as wallpapers.
- Event countdowns and count-ups
- Home screen widget
- Daily notifications
- Background image customization
- Easy sharing with friends
- Offline functionality
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Simple, elegant design shows you how long until your upcoming big event with beautiful background images. Or, if your event is in the past, it will count up. There is also a widget to track your countdown on your home screen. Daily notifications remind you how long until your special day. • Easy share your countdown tracking with friends and family • Post your countdown tracking to Facebook with one click • Works offline • Countless beautiful background images • Great to use as wallpapers • Great for tracking birthdays, weddings, trips, or any other big event! Please email us or leave review feedback for feature requests or any other improvement suggestions you have for Countdown Timer. We love to hear from you and are always looking to improve our Countdown Timer app! Please share Countdown Timer app with your friends and family! Thanks! Team Zaffles
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Christmas Countdown! at 90% against Days Until 's 0%. Christmas Countdown! also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (71K vs 81). On price, update cadence, ads and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Days Until sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Christmas Countdown! asks for nothing beyond the download.
Christmas Countdown! holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Christmas Countdown! has 71K ratings behind it against 81, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 90% of Christmas Countdown!'s written reviews are positive against 0% of Days Until 's.
Christmas Countdown! ships an update every 3 months, Days Until every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Christmas Countdown! | Days Until |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (71K ratings) — better | 4.6 (81 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 89.8% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 71K — better | 81 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 310 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jack McLean | Zaffles |
Customer experience
Christmas Countdown!
Days Until
Bugs and requests
Christmas Countdown!
Reported bugs
2 issues- Countdown sometimes off by a day
- Occasional app crashes or freezes
Requested features
3 requests- Add more Christmas song options
- Include countdown for other holidays
- Allow users to customize their own countdown metrics
Days Until
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Christmas Countdown!
No in-app purchases
Days Until
- Countdown Lifetime Supporter$1.99
Questions
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